I am looking forward to being a part of this pre-conference panel.

🎉New year, new pub.🎯 OPEN ACCESS "Troubling the canon: Language, geography, and the politics of STS publishing in five decades of journal publications" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

When your first book manuscript goes into the folder 'FINAL FINAL'

One of the things I enjoyed this year was this interview with Rasmus Bitsch where Tessa (@tessamuldvarp.bsky.social) and I discuss the work we have been doing mapping the history of racial classification in South Africa. You can listen to this interview here: podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/a...

I’m not an alum but I just donated $100 to help support African American/women journalists at the University of Alabama. They were abandoned by their school, which shamefully buckled under Trump. Together we can support young journalists to maintain a free press & keep hope alive!!

We invite you to submit a proposal for our special issue "The Human Diversity Dilemma: Navigating the Intersection of Microbiomes, Ethics and Society in Africa" to appear at the South African Journal of Science. Find the call here 👉 sajs.co.za/call-human-d... #philsci #philsky #HPS #hpbio #histsci 🦠

📣 Our second call for abstracts for our special issue is out! 🙌 If you work on the intersection of human microbiomes, ethics and society in Africa, this call is for you! Check it out there: sajs.co.za/call-human-d... If not, you can still spread the message widely! #histbio #philbio🐋🌱

The blurbs are in! Thanks to @sidbedingfield.bsky.social, @rickperlstein.bsky.social, and @alicetiara.bsky.social for their generous praise for *Making the Liberal Media* which is due out in March. Journalists and academics interested in reviewing—hit me up and I'll connect you with my publicist!

"The message is clear: Texas A&M does not permit teaching LGBT topics. Politicians, not professors, decide what is taught in Texas classrooms. Anyone who crosses this line may be fired on flimsy pretext" www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

Here I was talking about the consequences of the changes in classifications (and who was labelled as belonging in them) for conceptualising biological studies. Our discussion focused on the use of such classifications in microbiome research.

Amazing talk by @msimang.bsky.social at the "Human Diversity Dilemma" Workshop (@localmicrobes.bsky.social), Cape Town! Check out this great infographic on shifting racial classif. in South Africa 17-21C by @tessamuldvarp.bsky.social and Phila: figshare.com/articles/fig... #hpbio #philsky #race

Important point—in this argument (which I support), the anarchy is not apolitical, even if it's tempting to think so.

How to delete your account without agreeing to the new TOS: In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.

If you haven't registered yet, please do so before September 22nd! #hpbio #philbio #histbio 🐋🌱 October 1st to 3rd, 2025 – Interdisciplinary Workshop in South Africa (Cape Town) – The Human Diversity Dilemma: Navigating the Intersection of Microbiomes, Ethics, and Society in Africa

So excited to share that earlier this year I received a Wellcome Trust Early Career Award for a 5-year project "DDT Relations: Tracing the Chemical Alterlife of South African Malaria Control." Can't wait to get started back at UCT's Department of Anthropology! www.news.uct.ac.za/news/researc...

Check out this 6-year STS postdoc opportunity at the University of Vienna! #STS jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Lordy... where do I begin. So considering the author of the op-ed was a co-author on a paper comparing pain levels by racial groups in the US, then I would venture that yes, he surely does need his humanities colleagues.

Submitted abstracts will be selected to appear in an interdisciplinary OA special issue in the South African Journal of Science! sajs.co.za 🙌 Deadline: August 18th. Early career scholars accepted can request travel support to our writeshop in Cape Town! #hps #phibio #microbiome #philsci 🦠

Check out the call for applications for the 2026 STHV STS School in Seoul!! Wish this existed when I was a graduate student/early career researcher!! #STS www.sthvschool.org

3-year research fellowship at Edinburgh! A great opportunity for folks working at the intersection of medical sociology, STS and socio-legal studies. International applicants are welcome! #STS www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY639/r...

We got great news! @ishpssb2025.bsky.social gave us funding to support early career travel to our event in October! Deadline for abstract submission is extended until Aug 18. Don't miss this chance! #phibio #hps #microbiome #philsci 🦠

If you're a researcher (particularly early-career) that focuses on health, join us for the @hsrcza.bsky.social 'Winning at Wellcome' workshop 16-17 Sept

Our confirmed speakers for the workshop "The Human Diversity Dilemma" include Jantina de Vries, Marina Joubert ‪@marinajoubert.bsky.social‬, Phila Msimang @msimang.bsky.social‬, Tessa Moll @tessamuldvarp.bsky.social Evodia Setati. Check our exciting program! 👇🦠 💗 #philbio

Revolutionary Demand For Happiness Writing Residency! For more information see below and here: www.instagram.com/p/DL-tbSjyZH...

That NYTimes storu comes to you courtesy of a researcher (of race and IQ no less) in this godawful club www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...

Save the date! Interdisciplinary Workshop: The Human Diversity Dilemma: Navigating the Intersection of Microbiomes, Ethics, and Society in Africa #hpbio #histbio #philbio 🌱🐋 Check the Call for Abstracts for our special issue on our website: perspectivesrace.wixsite.com/the-human-di...

If you are interested in the history of racial classification in South Africa -- or a visual depiction of how categories shifted historically, driven by political, economic, and social interests, we have an infographic for you. Find it here: figshare.com/articles/fig...

Worth running through the translator! www.information.dk/debat/2025/0...

It's not *done-done* (cause lord knows I have many many rounds of edits in my future), but I just sent off my book manuscript to my editor. This calls for a beer.

You can now pre-order my book *Making the Liberal Media* on Amazon! Hate Amazon? Tell your local bookstore you'd like to order a copy. It goes on sale Nov. 18. www.amazon.com/Making-Liber...

"The pro-natalist movement, for all its proponents’ insistence on the supposed demographic emergency facing the United States, is not really interested in making parenting easier or less burdensome for women," writes Guardian US columnist Moira Donegan.

Teaching colleagues, what's the current state on the debate about students using AI for writing assignments? Are we letting it go when we suspect it's the case? Are we checking (and with what systems)? I teach so intermittently that I haven't been confronted yet....

It's that season once again 🍂 ☀️ ❄️ 🌱 so please spread the word: Science, Technology, & Human Values are pleased to announce that we are taking proposals for Special Issues of the journal 📬 ⏰ The call closes 21 June 2025 - and you can find details in the form: forms.gle/6uYdQim9J1z5...

New article just dropped with @adriennestrong.bsky.social

Exciting PhD positions at LMU Munich to work with a community in Namibia or Malaysia on the impact of changing environments on childhood. www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_rcc/jo...

The NIH page for applied research on ELSI (Ethical Legal and Social Implications) of genomics is no longer grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... A colleague confirmed with the NIH program officer: it's gone.

Devastating www.science.org/content/arti...

"The discourse of history ‘works’ by claiming that certain phenomena belong to the past; this is an insistence that it is no longer present, that it is ‘dead’. In declaring the past dead, and in differentiating it from the present, historical discourse actively exorcizes that past and its ghosts."

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Chappell Roan is going to get me through this manuscript writing

My 2-year-old’s Danish speaking has exceeded mine… 🤨

Ok, back here. Twitter has become untenable and terrible. And I'm missing my academic lefty people

We have 10 full scholarships for students and early-career scholars to attend "Re-worlding Reproduction," supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation. These are earmarked for 5 in sub-Saharan Africa and 5 in the Global South to attend. Find out more at reworldingreproduction.org.za

Why don't real folks start emails like this

Job opportunities at U Melbourne in Social and Political Sciences (Gender studies, Anthropology etc) jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/9... due 24 Nov

2 PhD positions in “Saving Brains? Applying Ethnography to Early Childhood Interventions in the Global South”, one earmarked for East Africa jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

Danish colonial legacies and presence

First post new site. Hello old friends 😊